Enter your email to subscribe:

Today, the Center for American Progress and AAPI Data released the first of a series of reports on the state of the Asian American and Pacific Islanders communities, featuring the most comprehensive research and analysis of its kind for the fastest-growing demographic in the United States. The reports, a joint project of CAP and AAPI Data, a project at the University of California, Riverside, examines how the growth of this group will affect a variety of key policy areas from immigration and education to health care and the environment.

People of color will be in the majority in the United States by mid-century, and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, or AAPI, are a significant factor in the nation’s changing demographics. But the lack of centralized and accessible data has created a large knowledge gap about this fast-growing and influential group. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are quickly reaching the critical mass needed to be politically relevant, but data about this group have often not been available or presented in a way that is accessible to policymakers, journalists, and community-based organizations.